Popular Post QMany Posted January 12, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2018 (edited) We can stop beating around the bush. No more "that has racial undertones" or "he is enabling white supremacists." We need to just call Trump what he is, a racist. I'm sorry for the long post. These actions are weaved in and out of other threads in Politics & Religion, but I felt this topic deserves its own. In the 1970s, the Department of Justice sued the Trumps for discrimination based on the Fair Housing Act, while Donald was President of the Trump Organization. Rental agents were instructed not to rent to blacks and to reduce the number of black tenants. Applications were marked with secret codes for minorities. Trump settled and agreed to meet certain standards. The Department of Justice renews the discrimination charges when the Trumps continue to discriminate in spite of the settlement agreement. In 1989, after 5 black and Latino Harlem teenagers Harlem were accused of assaulting and raping a white woman in Central Park, Trump spent $85,000 placing full-page ads in the four daily papers in New York City, calling for the return of the death penalty. “Muggers and murderers should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.” 14 years after their sentences were vacated based on DNA evidence and the detailed and accurate confession of a serial rapist named Matias Reyes, Mr. Trump has doubled down. “They admitted they were guilty. The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous.” In 1991, Trump is quoted: "“ Black guys counting my money! I hate it… Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that’s guy’s lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks.” He did not confirm the quote at the time but 7 years later said it "was probably true." In 1992, a Judge found the Trump Plaza Hotel discriminated when it removed an African-American dealer from a table at the request of a wealthy player. In 1993, during a Congressional hearing talking about Native American casino officials, Trumps says, "They don't look like Indians to me" and accuses them of working with organized crime. He adds that political correctness have given Native American status to some people who don’t “look like Indians.” He would renew these attacks recently against Senator Warren. In 2000, after renewing his attacks on Native Americans, Trump agrees to apologize and pays a $250,000 for secretly buying ads against Native American-owned casinos. The ads included pictures of syringes and cocaine and asked, "Are these the neighbors we want? “ 2011, birtherism begins. Trump leads the charge attacking our first black President's birth. He also questions Obama's placement at Columbia and Harvard and says he "should get off the basketball court." In June 2013, before the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin trial, Trump tweets: An FBI report disputes this claim. In February 2015, Trump says Mexico is sending "criminals" over the border. That June, while announcing his candidacy, he now calls Mexicans coming across the border "rapists." The next month, he tweets and later deletes that Bush “has to like the Mexican illegals because of his wife,” a Mexican immigrant. November 2015, after a black protester chanting “Black Lives Matter” at a Trump rally in Alabama rally was pushed and punched, Trump tweets and later deletes false statistics about the percentage of whites killed by blacks. 2015 to present, Muslim ban... While giving a foreign policy speech in Poland in July 2017, Trump stresses the need to protect “the West, “civilization” against forces from “the South and East” that threaten western values. The U.S. Department of Justice concluded that Joe Arpaio oversaw the worst pattern of racial profiling in U.S. history, and subsequently filed suit against him for unlawful discriminatory police conduct. Arpaio's office paid more than $146 million in fees, settlements, and court awards. Multiple courts find him guilty of racial profiling. A Federal court issued an injunction barring him from conducting further "immigration round-ups". Despite this, Arpaio's office continued to detain "persons for further investigation without reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or is being committed." In July 2017, he was convicted of criminal contempt of court. In August 2017, a white nationalist attending a rally drove a car into a crowd, killing one protester and injuring many more. Trump condemned “this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides.” He did not mention white supremacists or nationalists specifically. December 2017, Trump says Haitians "all have AIDS." In related statements this week, Trump says he wants immigrants from (white) countries like Norway instead of "s#!tholes" like (black) Africa. Edited January 12, 2018 by QMany 10 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 (edited) Then, you put on top of that the fact he sexually assaults women and brags about it......you pretty much have a disgusting human being. Something is baffling me though. I just can't put my finger on why the KKK and Neo Nazis feel empowered........just can't figure it out. Edited January 12, 2018 by BigRedBuster 5 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 Nice work @QMany. It is good to have this all compiled in one place so people can see it & decide for themselves. For a long time, I allowed some amount of deference to Trump on this. I'd say things like "He himself may not be racist, but he's sure appealing to racists for his own ends," which I thought was almost worse in a way. And his "Mexican rapists" bit had already cemented me as completely out as a Trump voter, so it's not like I wanted to see him as something better than he was. No more. It's a sad day when we have to admit that the President is an ignorant racist, but here we are. Elections have consequences, I guess. The most disgusting thing is the virtue signaling from the White House after this hit the fan last night. They were reportedly happy about his comment because they thought it would play well with his base. I don't like to throw conservative-leaning people under the bus, but what does that say about the GOP base? 2 Link to comment
knapplc Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 He's definitely racist. And the worst part of it all is, the people who voted for him are so tired of hearing how F'd up that vote was, they're tuning out all the Trump criticism. I see people all over my timeline talking about how they've muted words related to Trump. Many Trump voters no longer come to P&R, they've banned discussion of Trump/politics on the Status Updates, all because they want to keep their head in the sand about what they've done. Here's Dick Durbin, (D) Illinois, talking about the comments Trump made yesterday - which Durbin witnessed. The rest of this tweet thread: 1 Link to comment
commando Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 there is a large part of his "base" that voted for him because he is racist Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 I think I remember someone at some point in time calling these people...."deplorable". 3 Link to comment
HuskerNBigD Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 They guy has lost his freaking mind, not sure he ever had one to start with. Link to comment
knapplc Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 Thing is, the problem isn't just Trump. He's a symptom. 2 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 CNN hosts last night stepping up and calling balls and strikes. If you have time to watch some of the interactions on Anderson's show it's worth it. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 Durbin's comments - I'd like a list of the folks in the room. I'm hearing 6 other R's ... would it be possible that only one Dem would be in presenting this bi-partisan bill? 1 Link to comment
deedsker Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 https://www.buzzfeed.com/thomasfrank/secret-money-how-trump-made-millions-selling-condos-to?utm_term=.xyO56yo0G0#.rwwqDjJXrX Quote The Haitian government claimed in the 1980s that ousted dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier laundered stolen treasury funds when he bought Trump Tower apartment 54-K for $446,875 in August 1983. Duvalier used a Panama shell company called Lasa Trade and Finance to buy the apartment in cash. Trump signed the deed of sale. Maybe this is why he hates them. They have tried to link him to money laundering before. Link to comment
BIG ERN Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 But but the stock market! Link to comment
zoogs Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 58 minutes ago, knapplc said: Thing is, the problem isn't just Trump. He's a symptom. Exactly. We are racist. Thanks to @QManyfor the post. 2 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 25 minutes ago, zoogs said: Exactly. We are racist. Thanks to @QManyfor the post. Gotta say Zoogs - pretty bold statement. I won't put myself in the racist category, and I think there are plenty of examples of others who won't. Link to comment
Nebfanatic Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 1 minute ago, NM11046 said: Gotta say Zoogs - pretty bold statement. I won't put myself in the racist category, and I think there are plenty of examples of others who won't. I think he meant it more as an indictment of our culture which created the reality of a Trump presidency in the first place. 1 Link to comment
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